kids clothes week challenge: fall 2010

September 7th, 2010

After the resounding sucess of last spring’s kids clothes week challenge there was a call to have another when the temperatures cooled off a bit and I am glad to oblige. The challenge will stay the same:

For one hour each day the week of September 20-26 work on making clothes for kids.

I’m going to soup it up a bit with a giveaway or two and maybe even a tutorial (if my camera is fixed by then). Mostly, though, it should be just like last time with scads of people sewing like crazy for their kids. If you didn’t participate last time or are on the fence this time, imagine what it would be like to have 200 people cheering you on and well, that’s what it felt like in the spring. Just by working a little each day for one week you could have a beautiful winter coat made or all the christmas pajamas done or finally made something from that cute fabric you have been saving. Doesn’t that sound awesome?

I think most of us focused on sewing (and all the pattern tracing, fabric cutting, pinning, hemming and ironing that go with it) in the spring, but I don’t see why knitting and crocheting can’t count–though they are much slower going, so you can’t really be sure you will have a finished product at the end of the week, but then again, maybe the sewers can’t either! Warmer clothes can be a little more involved, but really pants are just long shorts–and I know you can make shorts. There was a fineshowing of fallfashions from the southern hemisphere last time, so no whining that fall clothes take too long.

O.k. enough of me talking, time to sign up! Leave your name in the comments if you want to play along this fall. Feel free to take a button for your blog (you don’t have to have a blog to participate of course) and spread the word.

With the buttons, I can only advise about WordPress, since that’s who powers my blog. On your dashboard, where it asks for image URL just cut and past the img src (above) but only from http…html and where your blog asks for the link URL enter the h ref (above), but again only from http…html.

I was having trouble posting the button to my blog but then realized that the html tags are supposed to have quotations around them and they have apostrophes instead on all the buttons above. If anyone else has problems just change the apostrophes to quotation marks and you should be set :)

I want to join sewing week! I have a 7 mo. old baby girl and have so many patterns and fabrics that are aching to be made into something for her to wear! Maybe the challenge will help me stay on “sewing” track;-)

Oh, I’m in! Kid’s clothes is about all I sew! found my way here from madebyrae and am so excited to play with you! I’ve been lax the past few weeks, but DD’s Fall coat needs to get done…among MANY other projects…